Archive | April, 2017

It’s a big day for Ellen DeGeneres. Back in the ’90s, the comedian and talk show host starred in the sitcom Ellen. Twenty years ago today, 42 million people tuned into the “The Puppy Episode,” which showed her character (and herself) coming to terms with her sexuality and, eventually, coming out on air. To celebrate […]

Robots aren’t plotting an imminent human take-over; robots are our partners and friends. That’s the broad theme of a Google.org-backed robotics exhibit coming soon to Chicago. Robot Revolution features cutting-edge bots that can climb up and down ladders, solve a Rubik’s cube at lightning speed, compete in a soccer match, mimic your facial expressions, make […]

Finally, an X-Files playlist that’s more than just songs with heavy synth and alien noises. X-Files star Gillian Anderson discovered a fan-created Spotify playlist that speaks more to… er, the spirit of the fandom than the music and sound design of the show. Suffice it to say, Anderson loved it. SEE ALSO: How to dress […]

Nothing to see here, just Macaulay Culkin crucified as Kurt Cobain and Ronald McDonald bursting out of someone’s chest like an Alien. It’s exactly the kind of satire and dark humor we’ve come to expect from Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman. In the video for the song “Total Entertainment Forever,” off his new album […]

Samantha Bee certainly set the stage during her opening monologue at “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” — which was basically a live episode of her hit Comedy Central series, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. These are the kinds of one-liners you can look forward to: “You basically get paid to stand in a cage […]

2017 has been a bona fide hellscape of a year. Donald Trump is President of the United States, there’s a very extremely real possibility of a nuclear war breaking out over a tweet, and there’s a revolving door of Presidential Cabinet members who are constantly being forced to resign. It feels like a bad, feebly-produced […]